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"Aye, free! Free as a tethered ass!" —W.S. Gilbert

"All the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and . . . the State should be abolished." —Benjamin Tucker

"You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." —James Madison

"Fat chance." —Sheldon Richman

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Friday, May 13, 2022

TGIF: Alito's Challenge to Libertarians

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In his recently leaked first draft of an opinion that would reverse the abortion-rights cases Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood ,...

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Friday, April 29, 2022

TGIF: What Really Protects Liberty?

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The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated, as if we needed another demonstration, that little stands between the government and our liberty. Ch...

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Monday, February 15, 2016

Privacy as Property Right

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In 1993, while working at the Cato Institute, I published an article in the institute's Policy Report that is relevant to discussions ...

Thursday, January 28, 2016

TGIF: The Bill of Rights Revisited

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Drawing on work by historian Gordon S. Wood, I recently suggested that we see the U.S. Constitution not as a landmark in the struggle for l...

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Friday, January 22, 2016

TGIF: The Constitution Revisited

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I am mystified that so many libertarians still see the U.S. Constitution as a landmark achievement in the struggle for liberty. On principle...

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Wednesday, July 01, 2015

Scalia's Anti-Enlightenment Anti-Individualism

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Conservatives warn that the so-called liberals on the Supreme Court endanger our liberties. This is certainly true, although not exactly as ...

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Sheldon Richman: Father, grandfather, writer, editor, pipe smoker, free thinker, libertarian market anarchist, grouser, flosser. Author of six books, including "America's Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Reconsidered"; "Coming to Palestine"; and "What Social Animals Owe to Each Other."

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